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🌻 9 Books You Can Read in a Day
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Wisdom, distilled. The Internet loves to write think pieces about how we’ve lost our attention spans. Where did they go? Social media is one obvious culprit. I personally like to pick on TikTok for reasons such as : 5 TikTok Challenges That Left Thousands Injured and Over 100 Dead. In general, I’m pretty anti short-form video and the fact that information is becoming more and more condensed into visually-stimulating, “aesthetically-pleasing” 30-second sound bytes. Give me words. Give me chapters. Give me delicious sentences to underline and real paper pages to dog-ear. And give it to me even when I’m short on time. Because, yes, me too, I sometimes feel like life is a vat of quicksand mercilessly pulling me in. It’s part of why I’m trying to live a more analog life—one where I spend time away from social media and make my downtime less consumption-based and more pleasure-based. Naturally, books are a big part of that. Even when I feel like I have no time. If you’re short on time this week but still want to enrich your precious downtime instead of losing it to a doomscrolling spiral, try this: 9 good books you can read in a day. Start with one, and then let the good vibes roll. THE SHORTLIST: 9 short books to read in a day​2 Classic books to read in a day… One from a French author and one from a Polish author ​2 Fiction books to read in one day… One inspired by family and one romance novel ​2 Non-fiction books you can read in one sitting… One book about health and one about philosophy ​3 Memoirs under 200 pages… One from an Old Hollywood starlet; one from a NYT bestseller; and one from a poet Or if reading by mood is more your thing...
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